Aparna Bawa, Chief Operating Officer of Zoom.Zoom's Head Lawyer Promoted to Chief Operating Officer
"Aparna Bawa is a talented leader who has provided significant value across all areas of our business since she joined Zoom in 2018. We are lucky to have her in this expanded role as Zoom's first Chief Operations Officer. We have begun the search for a new General Counsel, who will report to Aparna," a Zoom spokesperson said in an email to Corporate Counsel on Friday.
June 05, 2020 at 02:21 PM
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The chief legal officer of San Jose, California-based Zoom Video Communications Inc. has been made the company's chief operating officer, the company said Thursday in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The board of directors approved Aparna Bawa's promotion to chief operating officer May 29, according to the filing. Compensation information for Bawa is not listed in SEC filings, and it is not clear if she will be getting a raise with her new role.
"Aparna Bawa is a talented leader who has provided significant value across all areas of our business since she joined Zoom in 2018. We are lucky to have her in this expanded role as Zoom's first Chief Operations Officer. We have begun the search for a new General Counsel, who will report to Aparna," a Zoom spokesperson said in an email to Corporate Counsel on Friday.
Bawa was not giving interviews on her new role Friday.
Bawa became Zoom's first general counsel in September 2018 and was made chief legal officer in August 2019. During her time at the company, she helped it become public in March 2019.
According to her LinkedIn profile, Bawa has previously served as the senior vice president and general counsel of Magento Commerce, general counsel of Nimble Storage, head of legal of corporate development at Inphi Corp., and vice president of technology and investment banking at Lehman Brothers. She has also served as an associate at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.
Zoom has grown enormously since the beginning of the new coronavirus pandemic. Earlier this week the company announced total revenues of $328.2 million for the last quarter. That figure represents a 169% year-over-year increase. Bawa previously told the Law.com podcast "Legal Speak" that she was not totally surprised at how much Zoom has grown because of the pandemic.
"I think the future of work has changed forever. There is nothing like the entire population of the United States being told to shelter in place," Bawa said.
Zoom is currently facing lawsuits over how it handles consumer data. Two of the lawsuits it faces in California are among the first to invoke the California Consumer Privacy Act. As the lawsuits came in, the company hired Jonathan "Josh" Kallmer, the Information Technology Industry Council's executive vice president of policy, to fill a similar role as Zoom's head of global public policy and government relations May 26.
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